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Calvert Station OCT Teusday 8th Rev Jos Welch I now write to inform you that I will start a school 12 miles from this place I had the offer made to day to me and told them I would start it on the fourth of next month so you can Direct all of your Letters to [[strikethrough]] Bryson [[/strikethrough]] Calvert Thare is not a school in 40 miles of this place and I was ashured that I could get forty [[strikethrough]] scholl [[/strikethrough]] scholars to begin with and about 75 after the Cotton picking [[?]] was over and about 20 or 30 might scholars Calvert will be the only place that I can get my letters at I want to Know if you will sanction my starting a school hear I remain your Servant John L. King